The Construction of Exercise the Use of Local Folk Tales for Reading Comprehension Skills Development of Prathomsuksa 4 Students at Ban Thung Noi School, Fai Kaew Sub-district, Phu Phiang District, Nan Province

Abstract

The objectives of this study were 1) to construct and examine the efficiency of reading comprehension exercise package by using Nan local folk tales; 2) to examine the learning achievement before and after using the reading comprehension exercise package based on Nan folk tales; and 3) to investigate the students’ satisfaction towards the use of reading comprehension exercise package based on Nan folk tales. The sample group were 14 Prathomsuksa 4 students from 1 classroom in their semester 2/2021. The research instruments were 7 reading comprehension exercise packages by using Nan folk tales, 7 learning management plan based on Nan folk tales, 20-item achievement test, and 10-item questionnaire investigating students’ satisfaction. The author firstly deployed pre-test, then followed by posttest and questionnaire distribution for data collection. The data was analyzed by mean (μ), standard deviation (σ) and t-test. The results showed that:

1. The reading comprehension exercise package by using Nan folk tales for Prathomsuksa 4 students, in overall, showed efficiency at 80.10/83.95.


2. The development before and after implementing the reading comprehension exercise package for Prathomsuksa 4 students based on Nan folk tales showed the posttest mean at 9.29 accounting for 55.33%.


3. The satisfaction assessment results towards the use of reading comprehension exercise package based on Nan, in overall, showed their highest satisfaction.

Therefore, the results of the research show that the reading comprehension exercise package by using Nan folk tales, suitable for using reading comprehension practice of prathomsuksa 4 students at Banthungnoi School, Faikaew Sub-District, Phuphiang District, Nan Province.